Yeah... sadly no.
I hate the absurd amount of bloat on modern web apps as much as the next guy, but there's no turning back. No one is going to use your nineties style web site.
So-called web developers have no say in this. Tell your company you'll build a server generated HTML only site and see how that goes.
Nobody that says they want that even wants that. And those that do can easily just use static site generators like Hugo and get a site with as little bloat as they like.
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